Serikali ya Uganda yalaumiwa kwa Mauaji, utekaji nyara, kuminya uhuru wa kujieleza na mikutano ya kisiasa

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KAMPALA, UGANDA: Taasisi ya Kimataifa inayofuatilia Haki za Binadamu imetoa taarifa yake inayobainisha kuwa Jeshi la Polisi Nchini Uganda na taasisi nyingine za usalama kufanya vitendo vya kikatili dhidi ya raia wa nchi hiyo

Taasisi hiyo ya nchini Marekani imelaani vikali vitendo hivyo imebainisha kuwa nchini Uganda kuna uvunjifu mkubwa wa Haki za Binadamu ikiwemo kunyima watu uhuru wa kukusanyika na kujieleza

Ripoti hiyo imeongeza kuwa Serikali imekalia kimya utekaji usio wa halali, mateso, na mauaji ya watu yanayofanywa na taasisi za Serikali huku Serikali ikishindwa kuwakamata wahusika na kuwashitaki

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Kampala. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a scathing report castigating police and other security agencies for brutality against the population and violently dispersing opposition gatherings with impunity.

The US-based human rights organization condemned the continued violation of people’s freedom of association, expression, and assembly.

In its annual world report, HRW also accused the government of turning a blind eye to illegal detentions, torture, and extrajudicial killings and refusing to prosecute the perpetrators.

The 2017 report released yesterday named police as the leading state agency in violation of human rights and extrajudicial killings of civilians.

“Police killed at least two people in Rukungiri and one in Amolatar while using excessive force to disperse what they deemed “illegal rallies.” And yet in October, police charged opposition leader Kizza Besigye and two colleagues with murder, assault, inciting violence, and unlawful assembly for the deaths of protestors in Rukungiri,” the report states.

Blocking demos

HRW added that police “unjustifiably block, restrict, and disperse peaceful assemblies and demonstrations by opposition groups, relying on the vague and overbroad 2013 Public Order Management Act (POMA), which grants police wide discretionary powers over public and private gatherings”.

The report cites numerous incidents, including the arrest and detention of 56 members of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party for three days on charges of holding an “unlawful assembly” at a private home on the outskirts of Kampala.

“In contrast,” the report notes, “in August and September 2017, police in Arua, West Nile and Kabale escorted demonstrators advocating in favor of the constitutional amendment.” This was the period government was drumming up support for its move to amend Article 102b of the Constitution to scrap the presidential age limit that would bar President Museveni from standing for re-election in 2021 due to overage. (NMG)

 

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KAMPALA, UGANDA: Taasisi ya Kimataifa inayofuatilia Haki za Binadamu imetoa taarifa yake inayobainisha kuwa Jeshi la Polisi Nchini Uganda na taasisi nyingine za usalama kufanya vitendo vya kikatili dhidi ya raia wa nchi hiyo

Taasisi hiyo ya nchini Marekani imelaani vikali vitendo hivyo imebainisha kuwa nchini Uganda kuna uvunjifu mkubwa wa Haki za Binadamu ikiwemo kunyima watu uhuru wa kukusanyika na kujieleza

Ripoti hiyo imeongeza kuwa Serikali imekalia kimya utekaji usio wa halali, mateso, na mauaji ya watu yanayofanywa na taasisi za Serikali huku Serikali ikishindwa kuwakamata wahusika na kuwashitaki

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Kampala. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a scathing report castigating police and other security agencies for brutality against the population and violently dispersing opposition gatherings with impunity.

The US-based human rights organization condemned the continued violation of people’s freedom of association, expression, and assembly.

In its annual world report, HRW also accused the government of turning a blind eye to illegal detentions, torture, and extrajudicial killings and refusing to prosecute the perpetrators.

The 2017 report released yesterday named police as the leading state agency in violation of human rights and extrajudicial killings of civilians.

“Police killed at least two people in Rukungiri and one in Amolatar while using excessive force to disperse what they deemed “illegal rallies.” And yet in October, police charged opposition leader Kizza Besigye and two colleagues with murder, assault, inciting violence, and unlawful assembly for the deaths of protestors in Rukungiri,” the report states.

Blocking demos

HRW added that police “unjustifiably block, restrict, and disperse peaceful assemblies and demonstrations by opposition groups, relying on the vague and overbroad 2013 Public Order Management Act (POMA), which grants police wide discretionary powers over public and private gatherings”.

The report cites numerous incidents, including the arrest and detention of 56 members of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party for three days on charges of holding an “unlawful assembly” at a private home on the outskirts of Kampala.

“In contrast,” the report notes, “in August and September 2017, police in Arua, West Nile and Kabale escorted demonstrators advocating in favor of the constitutional amendment.” This was the period government was drumming up support for its move to amend Article 102b of the Constitution to scrap the presidential age limit that would bar President Museveni from standing for re-election in 2021 due to overage. (NMG)

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